link building overview

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATIONLink Building OverviewBy: Cheryl Estorgio

Link Building Campaign

• What is Link Building?

Link building is the process of increasing your site's popularity by increasing the number of sites that link to yours.

Link Building Campaign• What is Link Exchange?Link exchanges are a great way to get links to your web site. However, it is a time consuming and tedious process and there are more than a few webmasters that are involved in shady practices when it comes to link exchanges.

Link Building Campaign• What is Link Popularity?

Link Popularity is value placed on the number and quality of a website’s incoming links.

Link Building Campaign• What is Page Rank?

Pagerank - measures the quality of the websites on a scale of 0 -10.

Link Building Campaign• What is Backlinks?

Backlinks - incoming links to a website, which are used as a kind of voting system by search engine algorithms to determine

Link Building Campaign• What is Reciprocal Links?

Reciprocal Link - the page where your link is located or posted.

Link Building Campaign• What is Inbound Links?

Inbound Links - A website contains links if other websites link to it.

Link Building Campaign• What is Outbound Links?

Outbound Links - Links on a particular web page leading to other web pages.


• Why Links?

Links are the internet’s currency.


• 2 Types of Links

- Reciprocal Linking- One way linking

2 Types of Links• Reciprocal Linking

Links where you link to your partner’s web site and your partner links to your web site. Reciprocal links are also known as Bilateral links.

Both sites link to each other.

2 Types of Links• Advantages and Disadvantages of Reciprocal

LinkingAdvantages Disadvantages

-It’s free -Time consuming -

Tedious -Your site gives away pagerank -Slow to get many links to your web site

2 Types of Links• Reciprocal Linking Diagram

2 Types of Links• One Way Linking

One way links means that a web site links to your web site, but you don’t link back to that web site. One way links are also known as non-reciprocal links.

2 Types of Links• Advantages and Disadvantages of One way

LinkingAdvantages Disadvantages-Increases your link -Time consuming to get one popularity more than way links through reciprocal links “triangular” link exchanges -Can be free -Requires at least 2 web sites to get one way links through “triangular” link exchanges

2 Types of Links• One Way Linking Diagram

Inbound Links - Site A receives a link from Site B

2 Types of Links• One Way Linking Diagram

Outbound Links - Site A links out to Site B

Link Building Campaign• Link Requirements

Sample Link requirements:1. Link only to related sites 2. Linkpage must be PR 1 and above3. Not more than 100 inbound links in each linkpage.4. No links from PPC (Pornography, Pills, and Casino).5. Link only to English sites6. No links from directory sites unless related.7. No links from frame sites8. No links from orphaned sites9. No links to redirect sites


• Standard Categories and Sub Categories

See outline .........

Link Building Campaign• Shady link exchange partners

1) The use of meta tag “NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW”

2) Javascript Links

3) The use of redirects

4) Using robots.txt to block link pages or directories from search engine robots

5) Orphaned link pages or directories

6) Using new attribute “rel=nofollow”7) Using frames or iframes

Shady Link Exchange Partners• The use of meta tag

“noindex,nofollow”The Meta tags are in the header of a web page, that is, between the <head> tags. There are some webmasters out there that use the Meta tag <Meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> on their links page or directory. This means that search engine robots will not index (NOINDEX) or follow (NOFOLLOW) the links on that page.

Shady Link Exchange Partners• Javascript Links

Example of javascript:

<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'> document.write('<a hr'+'ef="ht'+'tp://w'+'ww.lin'+'ktutorial'+'.com">Link Tutorial</a>');</script>

Shady Link Exchange Partners

• The use of redirects

Detecting redirected links is fairly simple. There’s no need to view the source code of a web page. Simple click on the link and if you see a series of URLs in the status bar of your web browser, that link is a redirected link.


• Robot.txt

Visit the robot.txt file, it’s in the root directory of a web site: http://www.[domain name].com/robots.txt

User-agent: * Disallow: / This means that the web site will instruct ALL search engine robots (User-agent: *) not to visit or index the entire site (Disallow: /).


• Orphaned Link Pages or Directories

Are web pages that are not being referenced or linked to by another web page. Orphaned link pages are harder to detect than the other shady practices employed by some webmasters such as meta tags, javascript links, redirected links and robots.txt files.


• Using new attribute “rel=nofollow”

Google as a means to prevent the problem of comment spamming in weblogs, also called “Blogs”, and it looks to be adopted by all other major search engines such as Yahoo! and MSN.


• Using frames and iframes

Frames are used to divide web pages into multiple, scrollable regions or areas. Each region or area on a page is actual web pages themselves, with their own URL. Essentially, a page with frames is really a collection web pages displayed on one page.

End of Link Building OverviewCHERYL ESTORGIO

www.cherylestorgio.com

July 10, 2007

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